Monthly Archives: February 2009

Juicy Campus, the popular yet vile digital public bathroom wall for students, has gone broke and will shut down LINK

Actors and directors have been leaping to the defense of Batman actor, Christian Bale’s four minute tirade against the film’s director of photography on the set.  The BBC counted the number of times he used the F-word (35). Here’s Bale: LINK And here’s the BBC’s story about it: LINK

Slate gets scientific about Phelps’ lung capacity after bong story. LINK

The social networking site started by a student turns five today. LINK

School officials tell NY student to take the words “black” out of her yearbook submission because it might be offensive. Student Press Law Center takes the case and calls it censorship. LINK

Urgh. Blago insists on Letterman that he’s innocent. Crowd boos.

Times’ Bill Keller suggests the paper may charge again for access to some parts of site. LINK

Interesting story on Poynter Online about a journalist’s plan to build a blog about Caterpillar (as in tractors) that will fund his retirement. LINK

Newspaper execs try to counter doom and gloom reports about the future of newspapers. LINK

The pilot who pulled off a magnificent landing in the Hudson gives his first interview to ESPN. LINK

UK’s Daily Telegraph reports Obama’s Half Brother arrested for drugs. LINK

This alert from my Journalism 1 class: Star magazine shows Michael Phelps smoking pot. LINK

A 25-year-old Russian cub reporter shot execution style at a paper that’s seen a number of journalists killed. LINK

Pew survey shows Internet not only for the young. LINK